Facebook to Show Ads to Non Users

Facebook to Show Ads to Non Users

The social network is expanding its Audience Network to allow marketers to reach all internet users who visit websites or mobile apps that are in its entire ad network. Previously it allowed them to reach only Facebook users. People who are not Facebook users can opt...
How Do “Overlooked” Gen Xers Feel About Advertising?

How Do “Overlooked” Gen Xers Feel About Advertising?

Gen X is the most influential generation, says Yahoo in a new study, but it’s also somewhat forgotten about, as America’s “middle child”. Citing data showing that Gen X has the highest median income and controls close to one-third of total income dollars, Yahoo delves...
Will Cord Cutting Doom TV as We Know It?

Will Cord Cutting Doom TV as We Know It?

The short answer… not any time soon. But… 2.5 percent of TV households dropped their cable service in 2015. That number was 2.3 percent in 2005 and 1.5 percent in 2010. But TV is still where the mass market is, especially if you want to reach consumers...

Cable vs. Broadcast TV Advertising

Targetability vs. lower cost per person reached? Frequency? Reach? Geography? These are just some of the factors we analyze when making media decisions for our clients. The planning process is perhaps the most critical step in the ultimate success of an ongoing media...
Digital Advertisers Focus on Branding in 2015

Digital Advertisers Focus on Branding in 2015

  Conventional wisdom says that businesses use digital advertising to move products and sell services. But as the marketing/advertising norms continue to morph, we see that changing. It’s not that we’re no longer using digital ads to move product any...

Live + Local = Good For Business, Good For The Community.

I’m a radio guy. It’s in my blood. When I was a teenager, I begged for a spot as an intern at WLIR on Long Island. They finally caved in and let me into the studio. ‘LIR was what was called a “progressive rock” station, and it had all the...